“The sounds of the Qur’an
reverberated off the marble pillars in Alberta’s legislature
rotunda Wednesday night as part of Eid al-Adha [Holiday of Sacrifice]
celebrations.” Human Services Minister Irfan Sabir was quoted as
saying: “Here in Alberta, we are united by the freedom to enjoy, to
worship in our own way and that’s what makes this province and this
country great.”

Video
from the event features Alberta Imam Jamac Hareed, who served
as the Imam of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) Islamic Center
(Rahma Mosque) in Edmonton. Imam Jamac Hareed recited the first
chapter the Quran (the mandatory prayer recited by Muslim believers
17 times in their 5 daily prayers) and a verse 13 from chapter 49
(Al-ḥujurāt – The Dwellings) of the Quran (translation The Quran –
Saheeh International):

The Opening (Al-Fatiha – The first
chapter of the Quran)

In the name of Allah, the Entirely
Merciful, the Especially Merciful.

[All] praise is [due] to Allah, Lord of
the worlds –

The Entirely Merciful, the Especially
Merciful,

Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.

It is You we worship and You we ask for
help.

Guide us to the straight path –

The path of those upon whom You have
bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those
who are astray.

Chapter 49 (Al-ḥujurāt – The
Dwellings), Verse 13

O mankind, indeed We have created you
from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may
know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah
is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and
Acquainted.

Osman Haji Madad, Sahaba Masjid.
Edmonton, Alberta: “Who are those who earned the wrath of Allah?…
They are the Jews… Those who were cursed by Allah.
Allah was angry at them and turned them into monkeys and pigs.”
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcQHKY-Pfbg)

Muhammed Alshareef is the founder and President of Huston (TX) based AlMaghrib Institute, now operating in “40 cities around the globe,” and boasts of having more than 80,000 students. Alshareef, who was born and raised in Canada, kicked-off the AlMaghrib Institute in 2002, in College Park, Maryland. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42cSYW-P1iU) In the video, Alshareef says: “Adiyy ibn Hatim [one of the companions of Muhammad], May Allah, Exalted be He, be please with him, asked the Prophet, blessings. and peace of Allah be upon him, he said: Who are the “Al-Maghdoubi Alaihim”? Who are those that evoked Allah’s anger? That made Allah angry at them? And the Prophet, blessings, and peace of Allah be upon him, said: “Houm Al-Yahood” [Arabic], they are the Jews. And so every time you’re reciting Surah [chapter] Al-Fatiha [first chapter of the Quran], and in fact is some Muslim countries they want to take out the verses because they want to have good relationships with Israel… they said let’s not teach in our curriculum the verses that deal of and speak about the Jews and praise be to Allah, the scholars said: what are going to do with “Ghairi Al-Maghdoubi Alaihim” [not those who have incurred [Your] wrath]? Are they going to take
Surah [chapter] Al-Fatiha from the curriculum? They cannot take it
out… And so because the Muslim youth aren’t growing up on the
“Aqida” [Islamic faith], and most beloved people to them are
becoming actors and actresses, Jewish actresses, Christian actresses,
when they hear a speech about how Allah, Exalted, and Glorified be
He, condemned the Jews, they say: What’s wrong with Seinfeld? Every
Wednesday at 8 pm, prime time television, they’re watching Seinfeld,
and he’s funny. [They say:] Are you telling me Seinfeld is going to
hellfire? And that’s in their mind. Because they have laughed and
spent very joyous moments with the sitcom and now they cannot
understand what Allah, Exalted, and Glorified be He, is telling them
in the Quran… If the Jews evoked Allah’s anger, then they did it
for a reason, and Allah page after page in the Quran shows us the
reason why the Jews evoked Allah’s, Exalted and Glorified be He,
anger.”

Omar Subedar, Imam at Makki
Masjid in Brampton, Ontario and Vice President of Mathabah Institute:
“First I’m going to recite the verse. I seek refuge in Allah from
Satan the accursed. In the name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful.
Not the path of those who have incurred Your anger or the path of
those who have deviated, who have fallen astray. Now, who are these
people? Whom are these categories Allah (swt) is referring to? The
first group, the prophet (pbuh) has identified as the Jews (اليهود),
and the second group ‘those who have deviated,’ the prophet,
peace, and blessing be upon him, has identified them as the
Christians (النصارى).”
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP_9fZC1KjI&t=9s)

Musleh Khan, Toronto Police
Muslim Chaplain: “Al-Timidhi reports in an authentic Hadith the the
Prophet (PBUH) was asked by a companion: those who have earned your
anger غير المغضوب عليهم,
the Prophet (PBUH) says this refers to the Yahoudi [Jews] and
then companion continue to ask والضاليين
the Prophet responds and says this refers to the Nasara
[Christians] and those who have gone astray…” (Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fL00VOTPZI&t=183s)

Younus Kathrada, of Vancouver, British Columbia: “Pointing specifically at different groups here. As we said, although the Ayat (verses) include all non-Muslims whether they’d be Christians or Jews or other than them. But we speak about المغضوب عليهم those who earned the wrath and the anger of Allah, Exalted, and Glorified be He, specifically here the scholars (علماء) speak of the Jews Al-Yahoud [Jews]. Why? Well, if you look in the Quran, it’s because they are the ones who are the most argumentative. They’re the ones who knew, they have knowledge of things, and yet they rejected it. So, of course, they earned the wrath and the anger of Allah, Exalted, and Glorified be He… We find that even in the Sunnah [narrations attributed to Muhammad statement or deeds] the Prophet [Mohammad], peace be upon him, they, because they know and yet they reject. الضالين those who went astray, you know, because they don’t base things on knowledge. It’s all about emotion. And Glorified be Allah, the more we think about it, look at today even, you know, if you look at many of the Christians today, they like to talk about, everything is love, it’s not based on knowledge. Nothing is knowledge-based. Everything is emotions, ok, and so they’ve gone astray because they refused to seek that knowledge and they refuse to act upon this knowledge that is present غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالين. ”

Sheikh Mashhoor Hasan, explained
in a lecture in a Toronto mosque the meaning of this chapter. The
following are excerpts from his lecture translated by Abu Umar
Abdulaziz: “Not those whom you have become angry on, not those who
have deviated. The prophet [Mohammad], peace be upon him, said in
Jami` at-Tirmidhi [collection of hadiths, narrations attributed to
Mohammad], after he recited this verse, he said: Those whom Allah
is angry on [are] the Jews and those who deviated they are the
Christians. Why were the Jews called the ones whom Allah is angry
on? And why the Christians called the ones went astray? It is very
easy, but most of the Muslims they resemble themselves with these
ones [Jews] or with these ones [Christians]… The Jews have been
called the ones whom Allah is angry on because they had knowledge.
They have knowledge, but they don’t act on this knowledge. And
those who are astray [the Christians] are called astray because they
do actions and they do acts of worship, but they do have knowledge.”
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8U4UUrca9Y)

Toronto Imam based inQatar, Dr. Abu
Ameenah Bilal Philips is the Founder and Dean of the Islamic
Online University operating also in USA
and Canada.
Here are excerpts
from Bilal Philips’ lecture entitled “Enlightenment on Surah
Al-Fatiha” (August 5, 2007):

And He said the most important thing you can ask for, is what?
الهداية guidance.
اهدِنَــــا
الصِّرَاطَ المُستَقِيمَ [Guide us
to the straight path].This is the most important thing. It is the one
thing that will carry us to paradise. Everything we ask for is
useless. We die, we can’t take it with us. The only thing that we can
take with us is guidance. If we are following the الصراط
المستقيم [straight path] then we are following
the essence of what this life is about. So this is the most important
thing that we should ask [Allah for]. And Allah goes on to explain to
us what is the الصراط
المستقيم [straight path]. [Quoting from verse 7
of Surah-Chapter Al-Fatiha-The Opening of the Quran] صِرَاطَ
الَّذِينَ أَنعَمتَ عَلَيهِمْ the
path of those on whom is Your blessing, and Allah in the Quran
describes this path as being the path of the prophets, the
messengers, the righteous, the truthful and He goes on to say and it
is not the path of those who on whom is His wrath غَيرِ
المَغضُوبِ عَلَيهِمْ nor those who
have gone astray وَلاَ
الضَّالِّينَ. Now the Prophet Mohammad,
peace and blessing of Allah be upon him, told us that المَغضُوبِ
عَلَيهِمْ [those who on whom is Allah’s
wrath] are the Jews and the الضَّالِّينَ
[those who have gone astray] are the Christians.
So follow the path of the the righteous, the truthful, the path of
the prophets and not the path of the Jews and the Christians.
Why? Why did he specify it, not the path of the Jews and the
Christians?What is there about the Jews that we have to be
aware of? The Jews have knowledge. They have the Torah.
they still have the Torah. They may have changes in it, some, but the
essence is there. They have the Book [Torah], but they don’t
follow it. They don’t follow it. Allah said: أَتَأْمُرُونَ
النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنْسَوْنَ
أَنْفُسَكُمْ [Quran, Surah-Chapter 2, verse
44] You call people to righteousness and forget yourselves? they have
the knowledge, they talk about it, they don’t do it. They hide the
knowledge وَمَنْ
أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنْ كَتَمَ شَهَادَةً
عِنْدَهُ مِنَ اللَّهِ [Quran,
Surah-Chapter 2, verse 140] There is no worse on this earth than
he who hides a witness which he has received from Allah, the
knowledge that has to be be given not only in words but in actions
and has to be lived, because if you tell someone to do something and
you do something else, then you are telling that person that you
really don’t to do that, because if it so good and so important why
aren’t you doing it? If you have knowledge and you don’t apply it
then you are cursed. You are cursed. Allah’s wrath is on you. You
become among the المَغضُوبِ
عَلَيهِمْ [those who on whom is Allah’s
wrath]. It is very serious. Can any of us say that we can stand
having Allah’s curse on us? Of course not. We seek refuge from the
wrath of Allah. That means that whatever knowledge we have, we have
to apply it.

Yasir
Qadhi is the Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute
in Houston, Texas and a regular guest speaker in Canada. On July 24,
2014 Yasir Qadhi delivered a lecture explaining the first chapter of
the Quran, Surah Al-Fatiha. The first chapter of the Quran is a
mandatory prayer recited by Muslim believers at least 17 times in
their 5 daily prayers. Here are excerpts from Yasir Qadhi’s lecture:

And we notice this in the Quran غَيرِ
المَغضُوبِ عَلَيهِمْ وَلاَ الضَّالِّينَ
[the people upon whom anger is shown and the people
who are astray] it is as if, and of course this is true, even
though the concept of ‘qadar’ [divine fore-ordainment] is deep,we’re
not going to fully understand it, much less explain it in a
five-minute discussion over an idea [خاطرة].
It is as if thepeople upon whom anger is shown and the
people who are astray, they deserve the anger and they deserve to be
astray. It’s not that Allah forced them. It’s not that there’s
any injustice being done. There is no Injustice. Those upon whom
anger is shown they deserve that anger, but those who are blessed,
those who are fortunate, they do not earn that fortune. Allah blessed
them with that fortune. Also one could also say, and this is the
interpenetration of many scholars غَيرِ
المَغضُوبِ عَلَيهِمْ, not the path
of those whom anger has been shown means multiple entities are angry,
not just Allah. Evil people is not just Allah who’s angry with
them. The tyrants, the sinners, the people who cheat and steal,
the people who caused sedition [فتنة]
and corruption [فساد],
who is angry with them? Not just Allah. The angels are angry with
them, and all of humanity is angry with them. So when we say
‘people upon whom anger is shown’ [مغضوب
عليهم] we are saying: Evil people are despised
by the creation. Evil people are despised by the creation. And
how true is this. We don’t like tyrants. We don’t like people who
cheat and lie. We don’t like people who caused sedition and
corruption. People upon whom anger is shown [مغضوب
عليهم] the world is angry with them. So committing
sins earns you the anger, not just of Allah, of the angels and of the
righteous and even of all of humanity. Now, Our Prophet
[Mohammad], peace and blessing of Allah be upon him, he gave
some examples, and he said that an example of ‘the people upon
whom anger is shown’ [غَيرِ
المَغضُوبِ عَلَيهِمْ] are some of
the followers of the Prophet Musa [Moses], peace be upon him, and
an example of what ‘the people who are astray’ [الضَّالِّينَ]
some of the followers of Jesus, Issa bin Maryam. Now, this is, as
Imam Fakhr al-Din [al-Razi] says an example that two categories of
people ‘the people upon whom anger is shown and the people who are
astray’ [المَغضُوبِ
عَلَيهِمْ وَلاَ الضَّالِّينَ]
and the Prophet [Mohammad] illustrated these categories by two
religions [Judaism and Christianity]. Now what is the
illustration? ‘The people upon whom anger is shown’ [مغضوب
عليهم] are people are people who know the truth
but do not follow it. ‘The people who are astray’ [ضالين]
are those who don’t know the truth and they’re trying to follow it
sincerely. So the difference between the two is what? ‘The people
upon whom anger is shown’ [مغضوب
عليهم] they know the truth but for some reason
they refuse to follow. They don’t have sincerity. They know what is
right and wrong, and an example of this is Shaytan [Satan], and this
is worse than what is ‘the people who are astray’ [الضالين],
to know the truth and to not follow is worse, as for what ‘the
people who are astray’ [الضالين]?
They don’t know the truth. They’re trying to find the truth and this
is exactly how Allah, May He be glorified and exalted, describes
the modern followers of the Prophet Musa [Moses, meaning the Jews]
and the modern followers of the Prophet Issa [Jesus, meaning the
Christians]. The modern followers of the Prophet Musa [Moses, meaning
the Jews] by large they know the truth, and yet they do not want to
follow it. And the followers of Jesus Christ in our times they think
they know the truth. Generally speaking Allah says: You’ll find them
the most sincere people. The true followers of Jesus Christ they’re
misguided. They think Jesus taught Christianity, the Trinity. They
think Jesus taught whatever they believe he taught, but he didn’t
teach that. But they are sincere. They want to follow what they think
is Jesus Christ’s methodology. And this is an example our the
Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said. Now what
this means therefore this means therefore is the true Muslim avoids
both of these paths. The path of knowledge without action and the
path of action without knowledge.

Born and raised in Birmingham, UK, Shaykh Ahsan Hanif, PhD, is the Head of Qur’an and Hadith Sciences Department of AlMaghrib Institute, located in Houston, Texas. In a lecture at Green Lane Masjid in London, UK entitled “The Cure & The Remedy: Lessons From Surah Al-Fatihah,” Ahsan Hanif said (the video was published on Apr 13, 2012): And you are not from amongst those people who incurred the wrath and anger of Allah, nor are you from amongst those people who are the misguided [Quote from the Surah Al-Fatiha, the first chapter of the Quran]. Those people who incurred the wrath of Allah, some of the scholars of tafseer [exegesis] said, they are the Jews or they are like the Jews.
Those people who know the truth, yet they refuse to act in accordance
to it. And the people who are misguided are like Christians,
those people who act but without knowledge, act based upon ignorance.
And so from the mercy of Allah and the blessings of Allah and the
favors of Allah is not only that you have the straight path [الصراط
المستقيم], but you have the book of Allah
[Quran], and you the authentic Sunnah [teachings] of our Prophet,
peace and blessing of Allah be upon him. So when you worship Allah,
you do it based upon knowledge. When you praise Allah it is based
upon knowledge. When you came closer to Allah it is based upon
knowledge. When you seek the pleasure of Allah it is based upon
knowledge. And when you have that knowledge you act in accordance to
it. So just from Surah Al-Fatiha [first chapter of the Quran “The
Opening”] when we say we worship Allah alone, if a person was
then to go and make dua [prayer, supplication] to other than Allah
then he is like the Yahood [Jews], he is like the Jews. He has
knowledge, but he is not acting in accordance to it. And if a person
was to go and pray without knowing how to pray, then they are the
misguided, because the knowledge is there but they are acting upon
misguidance.

Website: gloriousquranhistory.ca,
Quran exegesis by Muhammad ash-Shawkani: “In this 7th and last
Ayah [verse] of [Surah – chapter] Al Fatiha, Allah [SWT] mentions the
Muslims who practice Islam, the Jews and Christians… Those who
have evoked the Wrath of Allah [SWT] are the Jews [or Israelites]
who knew the full truth through Prophet Mousa [Alyhi Al Salam: AAS]
but deviated from this truth with selfishness, pride, and prejudice.
They thus deserved the Wrath of Allah [SWT]. The astray, on the
other hand, are the Christians who deviated from the Message of
Prophet Isa [AAS] out of ignorance and ill-knowledge…”

“In his book “Commentary
on The Holy Quran” (Volume 1, SURAH AL-FATIHA), Mirzā
Ghulām Ahmad, the leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya
Movement in Islam, explained verse no. 7 of-of Al-Fatiha. The
following are excerpts from the book
(p. 338-340): “All commentators are agreed that those who
incurred Divine wrath and those who went astray are the Jews and
Christians respectively. A prayer to be safeguarded against these
mischiefs, not to be included among those who went astray, nor among
those who incurred Divine wrath, has been taught. This must be
repeatedly offered in the five daily Prayer services. It is thus
clear that this is the biggest and most serious mischief which must
be safeguarded against. It should be called the mother of
mischiefs… Those who incurred Divine displeasure are the Jews, and
those who went astray are the Christians…”

The booklet “Muslim Prayer
Handbook For Beginners” has been handed out at the Islamic
booth at Toronto’s Dundas Square. Printed and distributed by the
Walk-In Islamic InfoCenter located at Toronto (collectfreequran.org),
the booklet introduces the daily prayers for Muslims. In some of the
supplications dealing with the “Kafiroun,” the disbelievers or
infidels, Muslims are ordained to ask Allah to help them overcome and
defeat their enemies who are identified as the disbelieving people.
The following are the recommended daily prayers for Muslims in which
the disbelievers are mentioned: “Du’a [supplication] to
overcome enemies… Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and our
transgressions, establish our feet firmly, and give us victory over
the disbelieving people.” (3:147)… The Witr (The Last Night
prayer) … we also abandon and reject anyone who disobeys you…
Your punishment surely overtakes the disbelievers… The most
comprehensive Supplication… You are our protector, and give us
victory over the disbelieving people.”

Recently, US President Barack Obama made clear his view that
same-sex couples should have the right to wed. Obama’s
controversial argument has sparked anger from faith groups and
Republican rivals, though it has been highly praised and embraced by
gay supporters and activists.

“I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important
for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be
able to get married,” Obama said in an interview with ABC’s Robin
Roberts.

Like all the world’s major religions and traditions, Islam
has a clear stand on this issue, as it emphatically forbids
homosexuality and lesbianism and regards them as a violation of
the commands of Allah. It states clearly that same-sex marriage
poses a serious and dangerous threat to human societies and
communities.

Islamic Concept of Marriage

Islamic Sharia pays great attention to marriage as it is the
straight path towards establishing strong and healthy human
communities. Sharia, therefore, lays down the basic foundations that
guarantee the stability and wellbeing of married couples. For
instance, the consent of both parties—the prospective wife and
husband—is a condition per se for the validity of “Islamic”
marriage. Prospective spouses are Islamically recommended to consider
important factors—such as social, educational, cultural, and
religious compatibility—so as to lead a happy marital life.

So it’s clear that the Islamic concept of marriage is totally
different from “gay or lesbian” styles of marital relationships.
Islam considers “marriage of a man and a woman” as a sacred,
solemn bond that entails specific mutual rights, duties, values, and
responsibilities that should not be violated. The Quran describes
marriage contract as a sacred bond and calls on married husband and
wife to observe kindness, true love, and marital rights and duties.
The Quran says:

O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and
created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and
women. And fear Allah , through whom you ask one another, and in
kinship. Indeed Allah is ever, over you, an Observer.

O you who have believed, it is not lawful for you to inherit women
by compulsion. And do not make difficulties for them in order to take
back part of what you gave them unless they commit a clear
immorality. And live with them in kindness. For if you dislike them –
perhaps you dislike a thing and Allah makes therein much good.

[Surah An-Nisa 4:19]

Islam also perceives marriage as one of the great favors, gifts,
and signs of Allah Almighty. The noble Quran says:

And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates
that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you
affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give
thought.

[Surah Ar-Rum 30:21]

So marriage, as far as Sharia is concerned, is meant to build a
happy, stable, and prosperous family, to raise healthy committed
children, to preserve offspring and social order, to satisfy human
physical and psychological needs, and to create sound faithful
communities and societies. Marriage in Islam, as in all divine
religions, does not mean sexual enjoyment only but also the
establishment of a family on hygienic and safe foundations.

Marriage and Preservation of Humankind

Among the main goals of marriage, in Islam and other religions and
systems, is reproduction and the preservation of humankind.
Reproduction serves to preserve the entire human species all around
the globe until the point when life comes to an end. Allah Almighty
says:

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and
made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another.

[Surah Al-Hujjurat 49:13]

Moreover, preserving one’s lineage and offspring is one of the
main essential objectives of Islamic Sharia that almost all Muslim
scholars agree on. Imam al-Ghazali (d. 505 AH), for instance,
specifies five objectives of Sharia, saying:

Maslahah (benefit), which we are concerned about here, means the
protection of the objectives of shar’, namely the preservation of
religion, life, offspring, reason, and property. Anything that
furthers theses five objectives is maslahah, and anything that runs
contrary to them is mafsadah (corruption).

The Maliki jurist, Shihab ad-Din al-Qarafi (d. 684 AH) has added a
sixth to the above list of five objectives of Sharia, namely the
protection of ‘ird (honor). Ibn Ashur (d. 1973 CE), who has been
known for his deep study and profound knowledge of the objectives of
Sharia, has opened the scope of the Maqasid (objectives of Sharia) to
include the preservation of the social order, promotion of the
wellbeing and righteousness of the community, preservation of the
family, etc.

Given the above, Islamic marriage aims, among others, at securing
happiness, wellbeing, and prosperity of married man and woman,
families, children, and the whole society at large. Happy, stable
marriage of man and woman leads, of course, to sound, strong families
and communities.

Same-Sex Marriage and Social Repercussions

Same-sex marriage endangers true faithful family atmosphere
where children should be soundly and morally raised. Gay and lesbian
marital relationships lack social acceptance and impose serious
dangers to the family institution.

Same-sex marriage, moreover, threatens the existence of human
species. Such relationships could not build human communities or
secure the existence of humans. Marriage per se is universally
known to be between a man and a woman, not between a man and a man or
between a woman and a woman.

Allah tells us in the Quran that He created everything in pairs.
Referring to this, Allah Almighty says:

وَمِن كُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقْنَا
زَوْجَيْنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ

Of all things We created two mates, so perhaps you will remember.

[Surah Adh-Dhariyat 51:49]

For sure, the pairs referred to in the above verse are of
different kinds, not of the same kind.

According to the divine laws and norms, nothing can ever perform
its duty single-handedly. Allah meant everything to be in need of
another of its kind, so that one would complement the other. In the
field of electricity, positive and negative poles need to be in
contact so as to induce an electric current, which in turn, yields
light, heat, motion, etc. Male and female animals have to be in
contact in order to reproduce. The Glorious Quran highlights this
universal law saying:

Exalted is He who created all pairs – from what the earth grows
and from themselves and from that which they do not know.

[Surah Ya Sin 36:36]

In response to this law, Allah Almighty has legislated a sublime
tradition for a man and a woman to be united in such a way as befits
the lofty, status of human beings, namely through marriage.

Given the above, same-sex marriage imposes serious social
dangers that destroy the basic foundations of families, societies,
and human communities.

Religions Vs. Same-Sex Marriage

In fact, same-sex marriage is outlawed by all the world’s major
religions and traditions. Dr. Muhammad M. Abu Laylah, professor of
Islamic Studies and Comparative Religions at Al-Azhar University,
makes it clear that:

This act (same-sex marriage) is an ugly sin which Allah forbids
in all religions, even in the most primitive ones. It is against
the ordinances of Allah and against the law of nature. I wonder
how in this age of advanced knowledge, science, technology, we allow
such things to take place in our human society, how someone allows or
gives a legal sanction to such a widespread act that poses a threat
to the whole human race and destroys our fabric of society like
cancer… In both the Old and the New Testaments, all Prophets of
God forbid such evil activities and punish severely those who
practice them.

[Muhammad Abu Laylah, Gay Marriage: Islamic View]

Likewise, Tariq Ramadan, a well-known intellectual, says:

We must reiterate, as does Isabelle Levy, that all the worlds’
major religions and spiritual traditions—from the majority view in
Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism to Christianity and Islam—condemn
and forbid homosexuality. The great majority of rabbis hold the same
position, as do the Pope and the Dalaï Lama, who condemns
homosexuality. For these traditions, as for Freud (who speaks of
“perversion”), homosexuality is considered to be “against
nature,” an “expression of disequilibrium” in the growth of a
person. The moral condemnation of homosexuality remains the majority
opinion of all religions, and Islam is no exception. It would be
senseless to wish to deny the facts, to contradict the textual
sources and to force believers to perform intellectual contortions so
that they can prove they are in tune with the times.

[Tariq Ramadan, Islam and Homosexuality]

Concluding Remarks

In Islam, marriage of a man and a woman is not just a financial
and physical arrangement of living together but a sacred contract, a
gift of Allah, to lead a happy, enjoyable life and continue the
lineage. The main goal of marriage in Islam is the realization of
tranquility and compassion between the husband and wife. Marriage,
moreover, aims at the preservation of the human race and promotion of
the human values. It maintains social order and stability of human
communities and groups.

Same-sex marriage, on the other hand, imposes serious dangers
to the family institution, lacks social support, endangers the real
lovely family life, and breaks the social order of the human
community.